Quotes About Discrimination

When men age they're called sophisticated. When women age they ain't called at all.

You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough.

Wealth and intelligence should not be categorized as relatives.

It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

Americans need to learn from the Wilson era, that there is a connection between racist presidential leadership and like-minded public response.

both tariff rates and domestic charges for the use of railroad freight blatantly discriminated against the South, impeding its ability to grow and compete. The rates charged for shipping goods along the nation's railways had for decades been rigged to protect Northern markets from Southern goods.

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each and every colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, or even a human being, but from the viewpoint of a colored man.

I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

I noticed that among this class of colored men the word "nigger" was freely used in about the same sense as the word "fellow," and sometimes as a term of almost endearment; but I soon learned that its use was positively and absolutely prohibited to white men.

Manufacturers use names like 'Apache' and 'Cherokee' to conjure up images of the wild freebooting warrior. (Would you fly an Aborigine into battle? Drive a Swede across the desert?) In the same vein, there are still sports teams called 'the Braves' and 'the Redskins' - roughly the equivalent, as several Native Americans have pointed out, of calling a team 'the Buck Niggers' or 'the Jewboys'.

Could it be that racism is a sort of historical invention, a Satanic hoax?

Men are trained to discount women in any number of ways, Lydia.

But now they would believe Hamid was responsible for the death of Mamie. It suited the stories they told themselves about the dark-skinned man, the foreigner, the outsider, the Muslim.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.